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The Wildman
Crossley-Holland, Kevin
1990-2002
This series contains papers concerned with 'The Wildman', an opera in two acts with libretto by Kevin Crossley-Holland, and music by Nicola LeFanu. It was commissioned by the Aldeburgh Foundation for ...
Mr Pickwick Chorus
Kirkup, James (1918-2009)
1957-1959
Ms draft of chorus for the opera Mr Pickwick; ts 'Prologue: Opening Chorus of Street Cries.'
Minute book of the British National Opera Company (Leeds and District Section), containing mainly memoranda and press cuttings, 1922-3
1922-1923
First four pages only contain minutes.
Full music score for David Barlow's opera 'David and Bathsheba' commissioned by Opera da Camera, including a libretto by Ursula Vaughan Williams.
Barlow, David
1969
Also known as:David and Bathsheba
Un ballo in maschera by Giuseppe Verdi, with a translation by George Linley.
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)
185-?
A copy of Verdi's 'Un ballo in maschera' with a complete English translation of the libretto in the hand of George Linley, whose version was used for the English stage production.
Opera and concert programmes collected by Herbert Thompson
Thompson, Herbert (1856-1945)
1876-1936
This Handlist forms a supplement to Handlist 29 which listed the greater part of the papers, including diaries, press-cuttings and correspondence, of Dr. Herbert Thompson (1856-1945), for fifty years ...
Un ballo in maschera, by Giuseppe Verdi
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)
c.1875-1900
Full score with libretto in English
An account of the English dramatick poets, or, Some observations and remarks on the lives and writings, of all those that have publish'd either comedies, tragedies, tragi-comedies, pastorals, masques, interludes, farces, or opera's in the English tongue
Langbaine, Gerard (1656-1692)
an. Dom. 1691
A new edition, revised by Charles Gildon, appeared 1699 under title: The lives and characters of the English dramatick poets. Based on his "New catalogue of English plays, London, 1688 [Dec. 1687]" ...
Arne, Thomas Augustine to Garrick, David
c. 1750
Copy of an undated letter from Thomas Augustine Arne to David Garrick in an unknown hand, in which Arne provides his professional thoughts on Garrick's musical performance in a revival of the opera Ki...
Musical reminiscences of an old amateur, chiefly respecting the Italian opera in England for fifty years, from 1773 to 1823
Edgcumbe, Richard (1764-1839)
1827
Anonymous, by Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd earl of Mount Edgcumbe.
Memoirs, critical and historical, of Madame Malibran de Bériot and Monsieur de Bériot : to which is appended, a brief biographical notice of Señor Garcia
Bériot, Ch de (1802-1870); Malibran, Maria Felicia (1808-1836); Wontner, W H; Sharp, William (1749-1824)
[1836]
Portrait is of M.F. Malibran, as Fidelio, from a sketch by W.H. Wontner, lithographed by W. Sharp. Anonymous.